Theory of City Form (MIT)
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Module 1 - Introduction to Theory of City Form
Module 2 - The Nature of City Form Theory
Lessons
Module 3 - The Form of the Modern City
Lessons
- Lecture 7 – The Early Cities of Capitalism
- Lecture 8 – Transformations I: London
- Lecture 9 – Transformations II: Paris
- Lecture 10 – Transformations III: Vienna and Barcelona
- Lecture 11 – Transformations IV: Chicago
- Lecture 12 – Transformations V: Panopticism, St. Petersburg and Berlin
- Lecture 13 – Utopianism as Social Reform and Built Form
- Lecture 14 – 20th Century Realizations: Russia and Great Britain
Module 4 - Current Theory and Practice
Lessons
- Lecture 15 – City Form and Process
- Lecture 16 – Spatial & Social Structure I: Theory
- Lecture 17 – Spatial & Social Structure II: Bipolarity
- Lecture 18 – Spatial & Social Structure III: Colony & Post-colony
- Lecture 19 – Form Models I: Modern and Post-modern Urbanism
- Lecture 20 – Form Models II: Open-endedness and Prophecy
- Lecture 21 – Form Models III and IV: Rationality and Memory
- Lecture 22 – Cases I: Public and Private Domains
- Lecture 23 – Cases II: Suburbs and Periphery
- Lecture 24 – Cases III: Post-urbanism and Resource Conservation
- Lecture 25 – Cases IV: Hyper and Mega-urbanism
- Lecture 26 – Conclusion: Towards a Theory of City Form
